It is 2032, and shockingly, the threat of a food shortage hangs over the United States. Crop yields are down, and if the trend continues, the country could be facing a disastrous reduction in food supplies.

With this in mind, the president of the United States takes immediate action, creating a small team of scientists, diplomats, and military personnel, overseen by the vice president. This team's mission is to determine what is causing the crop failures-and what might be done to prevent them. As they uncover secret information from an obscure French research project and strange...